Recent content by wetzelaviation

Weather can and does change quickly. Glad that it worked out but I am curious as to what backup plan you had in place. I’ve seen layers go a couple hundred miles to where if I ended up on top I wouldn’t have been able to safely and legally get back down. VFR on top is great until there are no...

My aircraft doesn’t have a mixture so that doesn’t work on all aircraft (mixture) but lowering the nose and getting more wind definitely works every time. If temps get on the high side in some aircraft a shallower climb will put more air through the engine and cool it. So definitely can cool an...

I enjoyed reading this and I can tell you another side of this. I’ve seen way too many issues with people babying their engines thinking they are helping the engine to last by flying around with reduced throttle. As somebody that works on 2-strokes another thing I’ve discovered is that a...